ELSEC Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

A secondment / fixed term opportunity has arisen for a Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist within the Early Language Support for Every Child project in Portsmouth City. Portsmouth is one of 9 NHSE & DfE funded Pathfinder sites across England implementing the ELSEC pilot programme.

You will be a source of specialist knowledge and provide a highly specialist Speech and Language Therapy Service to children and families accessing the ELSEC programme.

You will provide a lead role across the Service & Trust for a clinical pathway, working with Locality Leads and other Clinical Pathway Leads, providing clinical leadership, driving forward service development, maintaining standards and ensuring the provision of up-to-date evidence based care.

You will support and develop skills in others (within the NHS Speech and Language Therapy Service; speech and language therapy assistants, multiagency staff working in Portsmouth City, volunteers, students, collaborators) for developing early language and communication skills in children living in Portsmouth City.

You will understand and interpret the evidence base for intervention with families across universal, targeted and specialist areas.

You will work in collaboration with the Clinical and Operational Lead for the ELSEC programme, to devise, implement and analyse outcome measures to monitor the impact of the ELSEC project.

Main duties of the job

Be professionally responsible and accountable as an autonomous practitioner for all aspects of your own work including the independent management of children with speech, language and communication needs.

Demonstrate a clear understanding of speech and language therapy service role within the wider context of a child's education and other needs, as well as exercising professional judgement to manage risk appropriately in response to complex and unpredictable events.

Ensure a high standard of clinical care for the children under your management, adhering to agreed departmental standards, national protocols/policies and the Professional Code of Conduct and support less experienced staff to do likewise.

Use highly specialist clinical knowledge and experience to undertake the comprehensive assessment and differential diagnosis of children with at times complex developmental difficulties, requiring the ability to make highly specialist clinical decisions. Use highly developed analytical and interpretive skills to deal with a range of individual presentations and complex situations using information from multiple sources.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

£49,387 to £56,515 a year Please note for part time hours the salary will be pro rata